Books On Swings

Hai all,
Can you suggest me some books that i can read through on Swings?
I am a beginner and working on a project based on Swings.
Expecting your suggestions soon.
Thanks in advance.

try the swing tutorial first
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/

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amar

Sure :
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/193011088X/qid=1081969499/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-2220942-6124804?v=glance&s=books
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The O'Reilly book does have a section on the UIManager keys, which I haven't seen elsewhere.
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its about time! anyone looking foward to this ?
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I've been using the Robinson book and I find it to be excellent. The O'Reilly book is also good, though I'm not as familiar with it as I am with the Robinson book.
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I am looking for good book on Swing. I needed to be a lot of things: a good reference, good explanations, good explanation about how Layout managers work and how to design GUIs.
One of the biggest problems that I am having is, I think, not understanding how to layout my components and how to control each component so that the GUI doesn't look rediculous. So, I need a general explanation as well as a detailed, all in one.
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Core JFC (2nd Edition) by Kim Topely has a good section on gridbag. I really like this book. For more current books, try Java Swing, Second Edition by James Elliot et al and Swing, Second Edition by Matthew Robinson et al.
As for layout managers, we've been using RelativeLayout and are very happy with it. Coding it is rather wordy and tedious, but it makes a lot more sense to us than gridbag's wacky concepts (weights, invisible grids with insets etc). I find it much more precise for positioning components than gridbag. Our new Swing programmers understand RelativeLayout within about 10 minutes of messing with it.
Read about (and obtain) RelativeLayout at:
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/09/18/relativelayout.html
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http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/11/27/layout2.html
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Hello!
I would like to purchase a good book that covers how to build the GUI for a program.
i am specifically interested in the GUI code and the book shall cover GUI from the very basic to the little more advance stuff, with lots of example code in it.
There are so many books, what book /books do you suggest that I purchase?
Regards
Martin
Edited by: onslow77 on Dec 2, 2009 6:46 PM
Edited by: onslow77 on Dec 2, 2009 6:47 PM

Best book for Swing that I've seen so far is [The online Java Tutorial]Yes, big yes.
One note though: I'm a bit suspicious against the "Learning Swing with the NetBeans IDE" tone the tutorial recently took, but I'm not sure of your objective:
- If you want to learn Swing, the IDE might get in the way (the generated code has acceptable quality, but Netbeans prevents you to edit it directly). If this is your objective, I'd recommend to follow the tutorial (a very good resource, indeed), but to code things manually (the tutorial provides downloadable and copy-pastable examples). One area where NetBeans' visual design helps is experimenting with layout managers: it's easy to right-clik in the GUI builder and see the effect of the changes.
- now if you want to quickly set up a GUI for an app with limited investment in learning Swing, I find NetBeans' GUI builder quite handy. AFAIC, I use a duo of Eclipse/NetBeans, depending on the task (taking care not to overwrite NetBeans's protected sections when I edit throug hEclipse).
- One colleague that used to work with VB tools once mentioned that NB was far late compared to the tools he used to work with, but I suspect what he was referring to were binding widgets to business logic results (reading DB tables, etc..;). NetBeans now addresses these areas too, although I don't use it for that.
Good luck with Swing.
J.

Documentation on SWING

Hi,
who can recommend a good book on swing or give me some URL to download usefull and complete documentation?
Thank you all
Anja

I'm sure there are several good books but while you are waiting for someone else to recommend one, start here:
http://web2.java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

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Well the app require alot of images and I parts of it do run 'slow'
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I want to ask how can I modify this example code to enable multiple selection, say if I select node1, system out display node1, then ctr+node2 selection. system out display node1&node2.
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import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JSplitPane;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
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import javax.swing.tree.TreeSelectionModel;
import javax.swing.event.TreeSelectionEvent;
import javax.swing.event.TreeSelectionListener;
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            "swingtutorial.html"));
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            ("Effective Java Programming Language Guide",
          "bloch.html"));
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     * this method should be invoked from the
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        if (useSystemLookAndFeel) {
            try {
                UIManager.setLookAndFeel(
                    UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
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                System.err.println("Couldn't use system look and feel.");
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        frame.setVisible(true);
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            public void run() {
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}

you can use the method getSelectionPaths() in the class JTree. It will return an array of all the TreePaths you have selected. Then on each of the TreePath you got use the method getLastPathComponent() to get the nodes which you have selected.
Hope this solves your problem.

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Looking at the source code for JButton, I can't see how this is. If a create a dummy subclass of AbstractButton (of which JButton is a direct subclass) and instantiate that, it has no mouse listeners, and likewize with Button. So what is it about JButton?
The reason I ask is that I've seen in a book on swing that you must call enableEvents(AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK) on a JButton if you want processMouseEvent to get executed. But it actually gets executed even if enableEvents hasn't been called, and the only reason for this is surely that there is a mouse listener registered, which there is, but why?
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Code:
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Hello,
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My best advice is for you not to worry about this at all.

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thanks
kishore
[email protected]

It can be done but it is quite a lot of work. Basically you have to produce your own cell renderer and use that instead. A good book on swing will tell you how to do it.

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help me out in implementing those methods.

Might I suggest reading the JTable tutorial? And/Or perhaps purchasing a book on swing?

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